On Fri, Oct 31, 2008 at 1:21 PM, Joseph S <jks@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Goboxe wrote: >> >> Hi, >> >> I just receive a new server with 5 x 73GB SAS harddisk. >> I tried to maximize the total usable space when configure using RAID >> 5. >> >> What I plan to do to configure all the 5 harddisks using RAID 5. >> Windows operating system also will be installed the same RAID 5 ( I >> going to have c: & d: drives) >> >> Is there any pro & cons when I using the above config? > > Raid 5 is slow. I thought the dedicated hardware I had would do the > checksums so fast and that raid 5 would be faster than raid 10 (since io is > spread over more disks) but it turned out not to be the case. I'd used raid > 10 if I were you. This++ Setup a 4 disk RAID10 with a hot spare. -- Sent via pgsql-general mailing list (pgsql-general@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-general
